Word: dimly
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Prospects for reversing that outlook in the Senate are dim. Finance Committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen will try to stop the capital-gains cut by offering as an alternative broader IRAs, without any tax increase to make up the revenue loss. Failing that, some Democrats favor strategy to combine the capital-gains cut in a monster tax-and-spending bill with so many provisions unacceptable to Bush that he will be forced to veto it. That risks triggering the automatic spending cuts mandated by Gramm-Rudman-Hollings if there is no agreement by Oct. 16 to hold the deficit...
...prospects for a substantial increase in federal education funding were dim, however. For weeks, Bush and his aides had rejected the notion that an education President should spend more on education. A senior White House official pointed out that federal funds account for only about 7% of total spending on education, and argued that much of the money is spent so inefficiently that "we could eliminate most of it and nobody would notice." Such arguments moved New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a liberal Democrat, to retort that waste and inefficiency never prevented the Administration from spending on defense...
Such a one is the film under consideration -- a Mafia comedy. Already the mind contracts with diminished expectations! Non-Italian actors gesturing rambunctiously, speaking with cotton candy in their mouths, plotting elaborate revenge with dim-bulbed resources. Cast Peter Falk as Dino Capisco, a dapper ) don just sprung from Sing Sing. Give him a score to settle with his weaselly partner Carmine Tarantino (Michael V. Gazzo) and a slick, Rudolph Giuliani- style D.A. (Bob Gunton) with an eye to nailing Dino's hide on the front page. Saddle him with a dog-stealing wife (Brenda Vaccaro) and a devoted...
...Justice, Thornburgh and his aides take a dim view as well of Von Raab's "Operation Paladin" plan to offer multimillion-dollar bounties for drug kingpins. Officials say Von Raab is "grandstanding" and fear bounties would invite international kidnaping...
...Tyson's next," Foreman bellowed, arms outstretched, to the crowd. Every old man in the dim arena choked at the visage in the crimson robe -- a middle- aged Rocky in their midst. Around the stands signs shot up, echoing TYSON'S NEXT. In the dressing room Foreman chortled, "Cooper tried to run, but the ring was too small. They're all thinking, 'What's George going...